143 Directorate of Personnel and Administration and were transmitted to the appropriate parent organizations, After utilizing tnis procedure several times, a determination was made that preparation of requests in the Units and coordination by the headquarters was a more feasible msthod. kKach element identified those individuals who had to be replaced or extended and submitted those names to the parent organizations of those persons. If a determination was made that replacements were not available from the parent organizations, requests for extensions of temporary duty were forwarded from the Units to Headquarters Task Group 7.4 for subsequent submission to Joint Task Force SHVEN, By this method, the group satis= fied its personnel requirements for the completion of the operation, Task Group 7.4 furnished personnel from the Eniwetok complement to augment the task force effort in Operation NEWSHEEL [ace "Operation NBWSHEEL (Johneton Island)", this chapter/. The bulk of Task Group 7.4 personnel engaged in that operation were moved to Hickam Air Force Base, Three officers and two airmen were transferred to Hickam to comprise the Headquarters Task Group 7.4 (Hickam). The Weather Reconnaissance Element also transferred 35 officers and 175 airmen, together with four of itswB-50 aircraft, during July. In the same month, the Ionosphere Element, having one C-97 aircraft, returned to Hickam from Cambridge Researen Center witn five officers und eleven airmen; and the Very High Altitude-Ultra High Altitude Zlement, having two 8-36 aircraft, with YC a) >, ht